Mark Rustbucket

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My career is in ruins. Industrial heritage, Scotland and beyond. #TICCIH #IHBC

Electric lamp standard, early 20th century, on a cast iron octagonal column with horizontal bracket, and ornate spandrel with thistles etc, in front of a tree. Edinburgh Old Town.
The central suspended span being lifted by cranes into place at Kylesku Bridge in Sutherland Scotland on 8 August 1984. It is a reinforced concrete cantilever bridge built on a curve, and on 45 degree angled supports
Newspaper account of the opening of the western part of Rosefield Mills, Dumfries, in 1889.
Olivetti Building (former), Harrison Road, Dundee, off the Kingsway. From Google Streetview. Built 1972. Triangular prows project the building forward over supporting pillars (piloti). Roof now grey instead of original golden yellow.
Forest Mill in Selkirk. Two storey building with arched windows. Water wheels were on the right. Stone setted forecourt.
Cherub in bas relief polyurethane, like those ornamenting the Oval Office after gold spray paint was applied. Made in China.
Bonnington Sugar Refinery, later VAT69 whisky bong written on the roof cistern, and a stone-built floor maltings
A big brick warehouse, with balconies showing coversion to residential uses, and a river with a statue by Anthony Gormley standing in it.
A steel-framed whisky bond built in 1908, retained on 3 sides, the fourth side scooped out to bring light into apartments formed in the 1990s
Granite plaque dated 27 May 1920 concludes "this housing scheme being the first in Scotland to be proceeded with by a Local Authority in partnership with the state. Beyond, trees in a spacious boulevard and houses in curved streets named after trees.
Wet docks of Dundee in a map of 1859. (Dundee University Archives). The Royal Arch, quickly thrown up in wood to receive Queen Victoria, was between Earl Grey and King William IV Docks, filled in for the Tay Road Bridge in the 1960s. The Tide Harbour was wide enough to admit large paddle steamers now being used by the Queen.
Timber sluice gate worked by ratchet and pinion to lead water from the River Dighty into the ponds of Calverhouse bleachworks, now a nature and heritage area. Periodically renewed on Washington's axe principles.
Green vitrolite panels prised by winds from the corner of Montague St. Chrome ventilator panel and window frames over black ceramic base course
destruction in 1961 of a French renaissance-style clock tower at Union Station, Portland, Maine, USA.
A single storey terrace of miners' houses with slate roofs and chimneys. Plastic windows and doors, and some pebble-dash. Low brick walls also of bing brick with a pleasingly varied appearance. Rosewell, Midlothian, built c1910.
A lot of trees in a gorge spanned by a former railway bridge of wrought iron lattice trusses
Side by side OS map and satellite photo of Leith harbour showing sites of East and West Old Docks by John Rennie, Victoria Dock and the entrance to Albert Dock (National Library of Scotland)
Rim gearing that took power from a water wheel with accumulated flotsam and jetsam, late 1990s.
Chimneys built at Upper Dens Mills with square plinths and opelisk points, to reduce effect of wind. Dated 1854 left, 1844 centre and 1864 right, the latter for the foundry in Victoria St, later Eagle Mills. All are demolished.
Spinning and weaving sheds at two mills in Walkerburn, with Ballantyne Institute, centre, a pump-storage hydro electric power station top left, using the River Tweed, and mass concrete houses. 1980s SDA photo.
A plastic pattern for railings pressed into a sand mould before molten iron takes its place
Interested persons in front of a red plaque fixed to the White House, an art deco pub, now a cafe and community hub in Caigmillar, Edinburgh. They hold the Flags of Scotland and the National Transport Trust.
Map of the "Ancient City of Aleppo" World Heritage Site outlined in red, with crowded residential districts around an oval mound that carries the citadel. The state party, Syria, put forward this boundary to UNESCO.
Stone carving of a lion as a foot rest for two legs clad in place armour, Ceres Parish Kirk
Terraced houses in Burnley, Lancashire, and a large area in the foreground of similar terraces levelled by the gov-funded Pathfinder scheme, leaving pavements and streets.
A man, a woman and a Norwegian flag. Ambassadors in Paris calling for a ballot on removing Liverpool from the World Heritage List during the UNESCO WHC46 meeting in China in 2021
Bramley-Moore Dock with cranes building a football stadium for everton FC, and the listed accumulator tower, and warehouses at Stanley Dock where the Leeds and Liverpool Canal connects to the port. Seen from over the Mersey.in 2021.
Blue blast furnace for pig iron with stairs and hand rails
Chimney of a power station flanked by concrete cooling towers, each with a parabolic shape to maximise surface area, on stilts to bring cool air into form an updraft for the vapour that exits at the top.
Two blast furnaces and a roundabout in South Wales, with steam rising from one of them
The Forth Road Bridge from North Queensferry, a December sunset in 2022. Longest bridge span (in one go) in Scotland, and longest in Europe, 1964-1966.
Dusk falls and a moon rises in a blue sky over a Scottish city